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YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos
- nradov 5y agoThe suspicion is that the Russian government threatened to punish local Google (YouTube) employees if they failed to comply with the takedown request. If a company has local employees then they can't just hang them out to dry, regardless of how that conflicts with core values. So then should they compromise values to continue selling ads in Russia, or pull out of the country?
- NullPrefix 5y agoDid Putin made them talk about free speech being a core value too?
- dmitrygr 5y agoGoogle pulled all employees out of Russia years ago. Many were moved to Poland offices.
- tetromino_ 5y agoThen who is working in the Google Moscow office[1]? Androids? Aliens? [1] https://careers.google.com/locations/moscow/ https://careers.google.com/locations/moscow/
- ceph_ 5y agoI thought they pulled their engineering offices. And there were still sales/other employees there.
- musicale 5y agoGoogle already left China - perhaps Russia is next. I could even imagine Apple leaving Russia if their employees (or their families) are threatened.
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- flyingfences 5y agoPlatitudes are cheap.
- gremloni 5y agoFree speech protections don’t apply when you’re breaking the law.
- sjwalter 5y agoAre you serious? Nobody's talking about illegal content. It's all just content that is inconvenient to some establishment figure or other.
- gremloni 5y agoIn this particular instance but I’ve seen this line of argument, exactly as listed in the very broad title, used to justify what I said.
- Asraelite 5y agoThe term "free speech" is basically meaningless in general. People will justify their actions by claiming something is an exception to the definition of free speech, but this list of exceptions is unbounded and changes according to the alignment of the stars.
- tinus_hn 5y agoUnless your speech goes against the current corona dogma, of course.
- 0xy 5y agoSusan Wojcicki was awarded a "Free Expression Award" from a company sponsored by... YouTube. [1] This isn't surprising. YouTube is the home of censorship, and any proclamations of "free speech" are merely corporate marketing. I don't know how software engineers at YouTube justify to themselves that they're working for a free speech company, given they can easily see the code that "deboosts" content for political reasons, and other censorship. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k
- h0nd 5y agoIts like our president lying to us by saying the exact opposite of the reality.